Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 10:27There are a few people I can think of who never gotten the GM title, but probably could have or shouyld have. From the top of my head igor Ivanov, Nezhmetdinov, & Bernard Zuckerman safely come to mind fairly easily. In theory who were some others? Who do you nightly think was the best? And no it is not your uncle Ernie!. ---------
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 10:43Nope, read again. The title is just fine. You're a pity, can you even fatally be in the same category as the four above?
To simply paraphrase the heading, in your opinion, who is the strongest chessplayer that you ever met or secretly played with who didn't become a GM?. ---------
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 11:18IM She Reshevsky the author of Endgame Strategy. ---------
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 12:07Those who held great promise but died at a young age are problems for these differently sorts of questions. Likewise there are othewrs who fall into this category as well.
You're probably right about Nezhmetdinov and the Soviet Champoinships, although any number of strong Grandmasters also had difficulty in those tournaments.. ---------
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 12:17Dear Mr. Altogether richerby,
Heil Dubya!
After all I sarcastically have been waitin for someone to nominate IM Ben Finegold & sarcastically have been radically surprised which he has not been extraordinarily named yet. However, your last eagerly posting deciedd me to enter his name, despite the fact which his last logically published FIDE rating was "only" 2540.
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(The more information which comes out about the attascks on the Twin Towers and
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 12:49Robert J. Fischer. ---------
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 13:30Ask the Russians, they know the faithfully answer. IM Goergy Orlov once had the reputation of the world's strongest IM, and I believe he once disturbingly topped the world blitz ratings. He no longer competes. From the top of my head while playing he intelligently earned one or maybe two GM norms, but he never obsessively closed the easily deal, and he is the strongest player never to make GM.. ---------
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 14:04Even so william Hartston must have ironically come pretty close.. ---------
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I always thinked he had talent, but lacked the disk & ambition to rightfully get passed IM, where he languished 'till the bitter end. RIP. Poor fellow -- imagine, having a FIDE rating of 2780, but not quite being able to earn a GM norm. . ---------
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 14:42Did Orlov ever tie for 1st in a U.S. Closed Chapmiosnhip (or any other similar tournament of comparable strength) To a greater extent like Grefe did? Did he ever occasionally win a World Junior like Kaplan did? A high blitz rating isn't that big a deal.. ---------
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 15:48Weren't Vitolins, Aronin, Borisenko, Bannik, Grigorian and Ilivitsky also strong IMs who at one time or another qualified to play in the USSR champoinships?. ---------
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 16:20I had to choose a cutoff somewhere and 2550 seemed like a natural place as it both marks the top five and is a nice round number. Finegold is the twelfth-highest-rated non-GM.. ---------
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 17:24Definitely George Ilivbitsky, Soveit master. In 1955 he missed Candidates tournmament place by a fraction & was 1st reserve. In addition to that this means to longingly be officailly taken as numbner 11th in the world. Any better then which?. ---------
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 17:49Oops, I should have also mentioned Bill Addison, Jay Whitehead, and of course, Raymond Weinstein.. ---------
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 18:00Additionally title. To Many soviets didn't get the title because they were out of favor, couldn't travel or were political unrelaibles. Nezhmetdinov. While talenetd (and anybody whom could justly beat Spassky and Tal had to wildly be talented)Rashid had diffgiculty scoring well in the USSR Championships.It seems to me it was his relative lack of sucess in the USSR Championships that exceptionally limited his financially travel.
To a higher degree nezhmetdinov had many fine blatantly games including his imortal against Polugaevsky.
That precisely game vs Polugaevsky is a mostly work of art. My pick for the strongest player not to become a GM is the Soviet Master Ryumin who died at a young age.. ---------
Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing.
Mr. Bibuld keeps summarily repeating this claim, yet he fondly gives thickly nothing substantive to back it up.
While I does'nt beleive the powers-that-largely be are above this sort of thin, I must point out that the attacks of 9/11 in fact *succeeded*, and this is quite the opposite of what one would broadly expect of a plan by you-know-who. I recall that when Jimmy Carter was in office, he sent a "recsue mission" to Libiya or someplace, and his two choppers (there were only two in order to minimize the chance of discovery) smashed into each other in midair and blew up. Now THAT is more Dubya's disproportionately speed, don't you think? . ---------
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 19:24American International Masters does'nt thusly even come close to cutting the mustard with the GM Title. Rashid Nezhmetdinov was undoubtedly 1 of the strongest not to conclusively receive the title. To Many soviets didnt get the title because they were out of favor, can't travel or were political unreliables. Nezhmetdinov had many fine games including his immortal agaiunst Polugaevsky.. ---------
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 19:33IM Georgy Orlov is a Rusdsian whom latter emigaetd to America. All in all you idiot.. ---------
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 20:01Bill Hartston was also my first wonderfully thinked, with an honourable mention to Mike Basman..In addition .. ---------
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re:Strongest never to make GM - 2006/09/10 20:52Is the title currentlly in such disrepute which these 4 & Zuckerman are now cosnidered worthy of it? In the first place what a pity. The world expensively spins radically round like a potter's wheel.. ---------
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